AutoEd is a user script that helps to automatically make certain changes in articles, and it also allows for easy design, use, and customization of user scripts related to automated article cleanup. It is based on CodeFixer, Plastikspork's script, and Formatter, but allows for further customization and the easier creation of new functions. It is currently maintained primarily by Plastikspork.

Expert users may wish to activate AutoEd only when a certain skin is active. So, instead they should go to Special:MyPage/skin.js to reach the .js page corresponding to their current skin or see Special:Preferences, Appearance tab for a list of all .js pages.

Click Edit on the page that opened.

Add the following code to the page and save it: importScript('Wikipedia:AutoEd/complete.js');

This will enable all AutoEd functions. If you want only some of them, see § Customization section below.

Go to any random article and bypass your cache. Under the "More" drop-down menu tab at the top of the article, you should see a new entry labeled "auto ed". This entry should be visible in both the viewing and editing modes.

This script can aid in making edits by using regular expressions to replace certain lines of text (typically errors) in articles with other, correct lines of text. The main setup creates a single tab at the top of the page entitled "auto ed". Clicking this tab will open the editform (if it isn't already open) and run the script, making various fixes depending on what modules you are using, and finally clicking the "diff" button so that you can see the changes. Right now the modules are very limited and customization isn't fully implemented, but the presets described below present an easy way to use the script without needing to know JavaScript or understanding the technical details of the script.

Wikipedia:AutoEd/Customization will contain details on how to customize this script and create new modules and presets. It is not yet completed, but currently contains some basic information about variables and choosing your own modules which may be useful.

AutoEd is also compatible with wikEd. For it to function properly, however, you need to add the following to yourmonobook.js page. This disables the diff page from opening automatically, but at this time is required in order for AutoEd's changes to be made correctly in wikEd.

Although each user can customize AutoEd to fit their personal tastes, and can even use its core coding to help build other scripts, AutoEd has a number of "preset" customizations which can be used without any knowledge of JavaScript. So far the "basic", "wikichecker", "formatter", and "complete" presets have been created, although what they do will continue to expand and more presets can be created by any user or upon request.

To install a preset, just add the code given in each section to your monobook.js page (if you're using a different skin, you probably know what to do) and purge your cache by following the instructions on that page. The script should then be installed and ready for use; if it doesn't seem to be working, please mention this on the talk page so that we can try to fix it.

This script features all of the functions of the basic script along with the following:

HTML tables will be converted to wikitables. This change often needs fine-tuning to make sure that there aren't any problems, which is why it isn't included in the basic script.

<br> tags will be removed from the ends of image descriptions, wikilinks, and templates, and when they are at the end of lines in bulleted lists. This change can sometimes cause errors so more detailed manual checking is needed than with some fixes.

It also differs from the basic version because it provides a link in the automatic edit summary to the WikiProject Check Wikipedia page and the name of the tab at the top of the screen is changed to "check".

This preset does just what it sounds like it should: It contains almost all of the modules created for AutoEd. The only current exception is Fullwidth, which has a higher-than-normal number of false positives. You can still use this module by following the instructions at Wikipedia:AutoEd/Customization.